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FernandoPacheco's avatar
FernandoPacheco
Level 1.5: Cupcake
11 days ago

Silent installation of applications on TELPO devices using Android Enterprise

I have an Android application that I want to use on TELPO devices, but in a way that updates are downloaded silently on the device, meaning the user does not have to intervene to update or install an application. I understand that with the configurations offered by Android Enterprise, it is possible to set up a device to allow the actions I require.

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  • Moombas's avatar
    Moombas
    Level 4.1: Jelly Bean
    10 days ago

    Hi Fernando,

    devault would be to grab devices from playstore and provide a windowed update time frame but there the user can intervene.

    Other possibility is to sideload the app via the MDM and there are different possibilities depending on the MDM you use.
    Example: Soti Mobicontrol provides the possibility:

    1. to provide an app as Enterprise app policy, in this case the app deployment is handled by the local installed MDM agent but can also be manually installed by a user (if it's missing for some reason). And always when you update the app in the policy, it will be updated on the devices (ensure that that the BundleId matches!).

    2. to provide it via a package where you can also provide a script to be run before and after the installation. This is completely out of hands from user perspective (and can't be seen except maybe Android notifications that the admin has installed an app or so which is the same for all others as well).

     

    In general all of them can be scheduled.

     

    We use a combination of 1. and 2. where we use 2. for partial update tests before changing the general enterprise app policy.

     

    I'm not sure how and which other MDM's provide same possibility but I'm sure there are.